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Still, Native Alaskan languages remained the dominant languages spoken in Alaska. It was only after American colonization when missionary, and later General Agent of Education of the Territory of Alaska, Sheldon Jackson, arrived in Alaska in 1877, did the use of native Alaska languages start to plummet. Jackson implemented an "English Only ...
Alaska Native Languages American Indians and Alaska Natives in Alaska Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native or Native Alaskan peoples, who are largely defined by their historical languages (within each culture are different tribes):
Indigenous languages of the North American Arctic (2 C, 20 P) Indigenous languages of the North American Subarctic (4 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Indigenous languages of Alaska"
Five Yupik languages (related to Inuktitut) are still very widely spoken; Yupʼik is the most spoken Native language in Alaska by both population and speakers. [17] This makes Yupʼik the second most spoken indigenous language in the US, after Navajo .
The Yupʼik are among the most numerous of the various Alaska Natives. There are 10,400 speakers out of a population of 25,000, but the language was classified as threatened in 2007, according to Alaska Native Language Center. [53] Byron Nicholai, a Yup'ik singer and dancer from Toksook Bay, performs to President Obama's cabinet.
University of Alaska Anchorage offers multiple levels of Elementary Iñupiaq Language and Alaskan Native language apprenticeship and fluency intensive courses. [ 21 ] Since 2017, a grassroots group of Iñupiaq language learners have organized Iḷisaqativut, a two-week Iñupiaq language intensive that is held throughout communities in the ...
The Alaska Native Language Center believes that the common ancestral language of the Eskimoan languages and of Aleut divided into the Eskimoan and Aleut branches at least 4,000 years ago. [3] [6] [7] The Eskimoan language family split into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1,000 years ago. [6]
The Alaska Native Language Center, established in 1972 in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of the Native languages of Alaska. It publishes grammars, dictionaries, folklore collections and research materials, as well as hosting an extensive archive of written materials relating to Eskimo , North ...